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It amazes me how blind some people are.The oil and the money is going straight to Halliburton if you didnt know.
If they money was going to the Iraqi people then why are these people living in shitholes with no water and electricity?why are the living conditions so poor?WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING? |
Some facts:
KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root), a subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded the contract.
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Activities in Iraq
The United States army hired Kellogg, Brown and Root to provide housing for approximately 100,000 soldiers in Iraq in a contract worth $200 million, based on a long-term contract signed in December 2001 under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). Other LOGCAP orders have included a pre-invasion order to repair oil facilities in Iraq; $28.2 million to build prisoner-of-war camps; and $40.8 million to accommodate the Iraqi Survey Group, which was deployed after the war to find hidden weapons of mass destruction.
In the competition for the current LOGCAP contract, the Army Corps of Engineers asked competitors to develop a contingency plan for extinguishing oil well fires in Iraq. The Army chose KBR's plan in November 2001, though it remains classified.
On March 24, 2003, the Army announced publicly that KBR had been awarded five task orders in Iraq potentially worth $7 billion to implement the plan. One of the task orders, obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, required KBR to "procure, import and deliver" fuels to Iraq. In fact, the contract was awarded more than two weeks earlier, without submission for public bids or congressional notification. In their response to Congressional inquiries, Army officials said they determined that extinguishing oil fires fell under the range of services provided under LOGCAP, meaning that KBR could deploy quickly and without additional security clearances. They also said that the contract's classified status prevented open bidding.
The Army's actions came under fire from Congressman Henry Waxman, who, along with John Dingell, asked the General Accounting Office - the investigative arm of Congress to investigate whether the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Pentagon were circumventing government contracting procedures and favoring companies with ties to the Bush administration. They also accused KBR of inflating prices for importing gasoline into Iraq. In June 2003, the Army announced that it would replace KBR's oil-infrastructure contract with two public-bid contracts worth a maximum total of $1 billion to be awarded in October. However, the Army announced in October it would expand the contract ceiling to $2 billion and the solicitation period to December. As of Oct. 16, KBR had performed nearly $1.6 billion worth of work. In the meantime, KBR has subcontracted with two companies to work on the project: Boots & Coots, an oil field emergency-response firm that Halliburton works in partnership with (CEO Jerry L. Winchester was a former Halliburton manager) and Wild Well Control, both of Texas.
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Other than the contracts being under dispute, who else would they hire to fix Iraq's dilapidated oil fields after 30 years of neglect?
We can't expect them to work for free and was obvious the Iraqis didn't have the experience.
Speaking of neglect, after 30 years under Saddam's thumb you'd think they'd have SOME sort of infrastructure to fix.
We can't blame the coalition for it's entire destruction, that's just a ludicrious arguement...
On the flip-side there were a lot of shady paperwork (or none to speak of) in the dealings of awarding of contracts.
There's a lot of clean up and still a lot of questions that the auditing is bringing to light of this whole situation.
No doubt that some is/was funding the insurgents...
It'll take time my friend, time.
Things aren't going to happen overnight and the auditing will catch up eventually as well, it always does...
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just remmeber that.
Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Valentino Kanzyani Remix) 
